He's an outstanding artist whose linocuts decorate the cover of Gilb's Woodcuts of Women, and several of my walls. Rodriguez creates in the spirit and mold of Jose Guadalupe Posada. In West magazine, Artemio Rodriguez gets five pages. Sunday's Times (2/25/07) featured two, count 'em, two Chicano artists. The Times seems to be moving easterly, however. Reading the Sunday Times' gallery openings, one gets a sense that art stops at La Brea Avenue, no culture exists east of that dividing line. Sounds like PBS all over again, but unlike TV, I read the Times every day. The Los Angeles Times has an irritating pattern of ignoring arts events that take place on the city's east side. I’ll update you if there’s anything to report.)
(I have word that a meeting of some sort will take place between raza activists and PBS representatives in Washington DC on March 6, to discuss the Burns series. Not that I support the ignorant rightwing pendejos who want to foment culture war, but I figure if PBS intends to ignore me, I shall now ignore PBS and its supporters on grounds that the WWII series shows PBS' true colors. I no longer find myself moved by MoveOn's plea. I used to sign that petition in knee-jerk reaction time. Last week, after I'd gotten word that PBS has funded Ken Burns to ignore Chicano and other Latino soldiers in PBS/Burns' seven-part film essay on World War II, I got an email from begging my support for PBS against some cretin in Congress who wants to cut off funding for PBS.
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